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Cloud Native Architectures

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280540
Pages 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (4):
Tom Laszewski Tom Laszewski
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Kamal Arora Kamal Arora
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Erik Farr Erik Farr
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Piyum Zonooz Piyum Zonooz
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Foreword
Contributors
Preface
1. Introducing Cloud Native Architecture 2. The Cloud Adoption Journey 3. Cloud Native Application Design 4. How to Choose Technology Stacks 5. Scalable and Available 6. Secure and Reliable 7. Optimizing Cost 8. Cloud Native Operations 9. Amazon Web Services 10. Microsoft Azure 11. Google Cloud Platform 12. What's Next? Cloud Native Application Architecture Trends 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

The future of enterprises on the cloud


Enterprises are always risk averse and so have always been slow-movers in any technology patterns. The cloud is no different in that respect, as for many years, the enterprises were watching the progress, sitting on the side-lines and waiting for others to be first-movers. It was at the same time that we saw a huge surge of many new start-ups that were all using the cloud and slowly started to disrupt the mainstream, well-established enterprises. As examples, Lyft and Uber challenged the taxi/transportation business, Airbnb disrupted the hospitality industry, and likewise Oscar Insurance radically changed the health insurance sector. These types of successes were never easier earlier, but now with the cloud, everyone has access to same set of services and infrastructure resources which they can scale up/down based on their business needs... and this changes the playing field for everyone.

As a result of the aforementioned effect, many enterprises have...

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